If one abandons prayer out of negligence, will he remain in the Fire forever or be brought out by intercession?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if one abandons prayer out of negligence, will he remain in the Fire forever or be brought out by intercession?
Answer:
This is based on the scholarly disagreement regarding one who abandons it out of laziness: does he commit major disbelief? If so, he does not come out of the Fire. Or is the intended meaning minor disbelief? In that case, he comes out of the Fire by intercession. So it is based on the disagreement in this matter. The correct and true position is the first one, that he commits major disbelief. Based on that, he does not come out of the Fire[Al-Muddaththir 74:42-43]. [Al-Qiyamah 75:31-32], the correct view is that he does not come out of the Fire because he is a disbeliever in major shirk, may Allah protect us from that.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if one abandons prayer out of negligence, will he remain in the Fire forever or be brought out by intercession?
Answer:
This is based on the scholarly disagreement regarding one who abandons it out of laziness: does he commit major disbelief? If so, he does not come out of the Fire. Or is the intended meaning minor disbelief? In that case, he comes out of the Fire by intercession. So it is based on the disagreement in this matter. The correct and true position is the first one, that he commits major disbelief. Based on that, he does not come out of the Fire
(42) [And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?" (43) They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,
مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ(31) And the disbeliever had not believed, nor had he prayed. (32) But [instead], he denied and turned away.
فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [65 /1350] من ترك صلاة تهاونًا فهل يخلد في النار أم يخرج بشفاعة؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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